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Share your Career Services Success Stories!

Did you find the perfect job through the ALA HRDR Placement Center? Did you discover a dream position through Joblist? Find the perfect candidate at a conference? Successfully revamp your resume with NMRT? Share your story @ALA Annual 2009!

This year's team of ALA Emerging Leaders is soliciting placement and career services success stories, to publicize its 35th anniversary at the 2009 Annual Conference in Chicago. If you had a positive experience, whether as the employer or as the new hire, we would love to here from you. No story is too small, no story too large! Submit your stories to library.careerstories@gmail.com. We are also looking for librarians willing to share their stories through multimedia outlets, such as a vodcast or podcast, so please tell us if you are interested! We look forward to hearing all the wonderful stories that 35 years of career services have created!

Project Details and Progress

Project Title:
Jump Start: On the Road to Career Success

Project Description

Design and execute an electronic communication that would solicit real stories of how HRDR services over the years (Placement Center, career resources, library careers, recruitment resources, etc.) have had a significant impact on their careers.

Process:

Jan- Virtual meeting with HRDR staff to brainstorm content of communication and identify electronic resources available. Team would work on creating the communication

Feb- Team's recommendations will be presented to the HRDR staff liaison for approval and finalization

Mar- Communication is sent to ALA Membership

Apr- Virtual meeting with HRDR staff and committee members to: 1. select stories to be utilized 2. brainstorm specific ideas for using the stories to promote HRDR at event

May- HRDR staff design and produce communications materials

Jun- Team assists in hosting of HRDR 35th Anniversary Celebration at Annual 2009 with HRDR staff and committee members (cancelled)

We developed a way for people to share their HRDR success stories. The website was designed and a few stories were collected. We presented our project on Friday, July 10, 2009 at the Emerging Leaders poster session. Cindy also presented our finished project at a HRDR meeting session on Monday, July 13.